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Cheering crowds, colourful bouquets and a plush red carpet: when Prince Charles and Princess Diana touched down in Nigeria on March 15, 1990, legions of fans lined the runway to welcome them. Every step of their five-day tour was recorded in fulsome detail by the world’s press, who joined them …

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will tour Nigeria in an unofficial Royal visit after being invited by the country’s government to take part in ‘cultural activities’.  The Duke of Sussex, 39, will fly to the west African country to join Meghan just days after his return to Britain for the Invictus Games 10th …

Meghan Markle was ‘keen to show her support as Prince Harry’s cheerleader’ at the Invictus Games this week – but instead she made her husband seem ‘like a spare part’, royals experts have claimed.  The Duchess of Sussex, 42, reunited with the Duke, who turns 39 today, at a glitzy hotel party …

The Duchess of Sussex once confessed she has ‘always been a hugger’ – and today proved no different for the very affectionate Meghan Markle. The Duchess of Sussex, 42, proved her love of a hug by embracing attendees while enjoying the games in Dusseldorf, Germany. The mother-of-two has been all …

MILLIONS of young Nigerians have registered as first-time voters for tomorrow’s elections, spurred on by a movement against police brutality. The voting is expected to be the most competitive since the end of the military rule in 1999, with many young people backing third-party presidential contender Peter Obi of the …

  Nurses strike in Northern Ireland for pay parity; Zimbabwe municipal workers refuse pay offer as hospital strike continues and teachers plan walkout Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa 17 January 2020 Europe Northern Ireland nurses strike over pay parity and staff shortages Northern Ireland health workers’ unions have …

More than 300 men and boys have been rescued from a ‘house of torture’ Islamic boarding school where they were detained and raped by staff for years in Kaduna, Nigeria.  Many were found chained up and the detainees, mostly children, said they had been tortured, sexually abused, starved and prevented from leaving. …